CRICKET IN ENGLAND

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 739, 12 August 1929, Page 13

CRICKET IN ENGLAND

NOTTINGHAMSHIRE LEADS COUNTIES AVERAGES OF PLAYERS LONDON, Saturday. In the county cricket championship the positions are as follow: Points. Notts 120 Gloucestershire .. .. 118 Lancashire ns Kent 116 Yorkshire .. ill Sussex . . 103 Derbyshire 102 The leading averages are as follow: BATTING Runs. Average Hammond 2,206 68.93 R. E. S. Wyatt .. .. 2,012 59.17 Dipper 1.937 55.34 Sutcliffe 1,578 52,60 Woolley 1,774 50.68 Sandham 1,853 50.08 O’Connor 1.942 49.79 Whysall .. .. 2,037 49.68 K. S. Duleepsinhji . . 1,506 47.06 BOWLING Runs. Wickets Average Tyldesley .. .. 1,987 13S 14.93 Freeman 3,386 213 14.95 J. C. White .. .. 2,05 S 132 35.59 Voce 1,504 92 3 6.34 Rhodes 1,313 80 16.41 Goddard 2,360 142 1G.61 Parker 1,711 97 17.63 Kennedy 2,013 113 -17.81 Tate 1,887 105 17.97 Larwood (12th) . 1,747 90 19.41 The following is a complete list shewing the positions of the counties in the English championship at the conclusion of the last matches played: Played. Points. Notts 21 120 Gloucester .. ..22 118 Lancashire .. .. 23 118 Kent 23 116 Yorkshire .... 21 111 Sussex 22 103 Derby 22 102 Leicester .. .. 23 100 Middlesex .... 21 98 Hampshire .... 23 85 Essex 23 85 Surrey 21 83 Warwick 22 73 Northants .... 23 70 Worcester .... 22 51 .. Somerset 21 37 Glamorgan .... 21 32 AFRICANS PLAY ESSEX The Soutli Africans began a match against Essex today. The South Africans, in the first innings, had made 385 for six wickets when stumps were drawn.